Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
absolutely not a thing to be “at risk of”, and a little bit worrying to see someone even worrying about
TBF it’s probably just a “me” thing. I don’t know how much stock you want to put in that.
Zit crit!
Agree: I don’t have much of an opinion on him either way. If this community is gonna hold him up as a voice of note then it should be able to critically engage with his work.
exactly so
Zitron was a major dick to a friend of mine who was having technical troubles with reading his newsletter.
And he needs an editor.
absolutely not the first time I hear something like that, and part of why I don’t really like the guy